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grocifer 03-09-2011 10:47 AM

Am happily reading all my messages when I get a box from http://server2.media jmp .com stating
(Auburn) Congratulations Quilting Board.com visitor. You have been selected to take part in our anonymous survey.

Then it opens a survey from a OSC online survey center.

I never click on any of it but it is difficult to close. Usually I have to close the Quilting Board and then start over by reopening it again.

I ran Malwarebytes but it didn't find anything. I'm now afraid to click on any of the links that any of our members submit. I have always gotten such great information and tips from all the various recommended sites but an now afraid to be adventurous.

np3 03-09-2011 10:53 AM

I've been getting this too. It is not the QB's fault. I am winning from Wal Mart too. It is something we have clicked on, a cookie or something. It reads where we spend time and uses that website to entice us. Click the red X in the top right corner to get rid of it. But it will come back.....

grocifer 03-09-2011 10:58 AM

Clicking on the X to close the window usually doesn't work. I just got another pop up stating I have now won a thousand dollars from "Quilted Paradise.com Visitor".
Don't I wish.
What is going on and what can I do.

jojo4 03-09-2011 11:04 AM

When you have a popup of this type, do not click on the red X. Clicking on the X in malware sometimes runs a script that either installs malware or collects personal infomation. Highlight the topic bar in the window and click alt-f4. The key combination alt-f4 will close the popup safely.

http://cnettv.cnet.com/quick-tips-cl...-50002101.html

Link is a video teaching about malware and popups from CNET.

sewmuchmore 03-09-2011 11:28 AM

That is a great link I have put it in my favorites just incase it need it. :thumbup:

carhop 03-09-2011 11:49 AM

when there is something I don't want I right click and then go junk mail and go over to block and left click on that then it is blocked for ever

grocifer 03-11-2011 10:14 AM

JoJo Thanks for the tip on eliminating pop-ups with cnetttv.cnet. I had them repeatedly yesterday but none today after deleting them in the task master. Hope they don't come back.
I don't understand why I only got them in email from this particular site with the "from QuiltParadise" name on it. Thought I would have to stop coming here -- either that or I would try to read as much as I could, as fast as I could. That wasn't fun (I did get a lot of other things done though). Thanks again.


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